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So, no error when the user connects to https://google.com/, https://mybank.com/ etc., that have self signed certificates? How is the browser supposed to guess when the connection needs a correctly signed certificate or not?

derrida writes "There is this Firefox Add-on called Adblock plus that promises (and delivers) removal of "all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page". And there is also an ongoing debate whether this is stealing or not. Quoting two different views:
"Do you have a devise that automatically blocks all commercials on television.[?] There's a difference between ignoring commercials and blocking them." and
"My a** it is [stealing]! If your going to argue I'm taking something from you by not waiting for your ads to load, I'm going to argue you are "stealing" bandwidth.".
Going one step further some web developers released scripts that blocks Adblock (watch the oxynoron!).
How is really slashdot going to react if Adblock plus is heavily used by its readers?"Link to Original Source

MonkeyMan (666) writes "A new project called IronMonkey will extend the Firefox web browser's next-generation ECMAScript virtual machine to support scripting with IronPython and IronRuby: 'The IronMonkey project aims to add multilanguage functionality to Tamarin, a high-performance ECMAScript 4 virtual machine which is being developed in collaboration with Adobe and is intended for inclusion in future versions of Firefox. The IronMonkey project will leverage the source code of Microsoft's open source.NET implementations of Python and Ruby, but will not require a.NET runtime. The goal is to map IronPython and IronRuby directly to Tamarin using bytecode translation.'"Link to Original Source

An anonymous reader noted that Computerworld is running a story on the 20 must have Firefox extensions. Several of my favorites are in there so I'm looking forward to playing with the ones I haven't heard of.

a slashdot reader (666) writes "The Belgium governement has decided to terminate the contract with UNISYS; the latter being in charge of the Phenix Project. The aim of the project was to centralize all different software systems (13) of the Belgium ministery of Justice in one solution. Development started mid 2003 and up till now UNISYS was apparently unable to deliver a workable solution. The full story can be read here (dutch) http://www.tijd.be/nieuws/artikel.asp?Id=2758696. I expect that we will read from this case in the near future again and it will be interesting to understand what caused the failure: project management, technology choices, etc..."

flok writes "The Debian project has started a new interesting webpage: the "Debian package of the day"-page. It does what it says: every day an other package from the Debian repository is posted with an elaborate describtion and some nice screenshots. As Debian (and other distributions as well) contains way too much packages to inspect all of them yourself, this is then a nice way of learning about all kind interesting softwarepackages."

Bart (666) writes "Ars Technica reports that the AACS Licensing Authiroty is doing some damage control today on the AACS hack that effects both Blu-ray and HD DVD (previous/. coverage). From the article, "The statement was firm in expressing the viewpoint that this attack is not a wholesale attack on AACS, nor does it represent a serious threat to AACS. 'Instead,' the statement reads, 'it illustrates the need for all AACS licensees to follow the Compliance and Robustness Rules set forth in the AACS license agreements to help ensure that product implementations are not compromised.'" The group thinks that the attack can be thrwarted, and while Ars seems to aggree, they suspect another hack will soon follow."